How Temporal Work Styles and Product Modularity Influence Software Quality and Job Satisfaction

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research Pub Date : 2016-06-02 DOI:10.1145/2890602.2890608

Jens Förderer, T. Kude, Sunil Mithas, A. Heinzl

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This paper investigates how two key outcomes in software development-software quality and job satisfaction of software developers-are influenced by product modularity and developers' temporal work style, i.e., the preferences for completing the bulk of work closer to the deadlines. We argue that high deadline orientation positively interacts with product modularity to influence software quality and job satisfaction of developers. An empirical test using a unique data set on more than 140 software developers working at a large global software vendor confirms our hypotheses. We contribute to the literature on software development by showing that software quality and job satisfaction can be increased by matching the fit between technological characteristics of the software product and people factors (i.e., the preferred temporal work style of developers). Our study has wider implications for literature on temporal work styles and product modularity and can be informative for practitioners who are tasked with hiring or allocating software developers for software products with varying modularity.

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时间工作风格和产品模块化如何影响软件质量和工作满意度

本文研究了软件开发中的两个关键结果——软件质量和软件开发人员的工作满意度——是如何受到产品模块化和开发人员的临时工作风格的影响的，即，更接近最后期限完成大量工作的偏好。我们认为高期限导向与产品模块化正向交互影响软件质量和开发人员的工作满意度。在一家大型全球软件供应商工作的140多名软件开发人员中，使用独特的数据集进行的实证测试证实了我们的假设。我们通过展示软件产品的技术特征和人员因素(例如，开发人员首选的临时工作风格)之间的匹配可以增加软件质量和工作满意度，从而为软件开发的文献做出贡献。我们的研究对时间工作风格和产品模块化的文献有更广泛的含义，并且可以为那些为具有不同模块化的软件产品雇佣或分配软件开发人员的实践者提供信息。

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